Plainfield Teachers

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Talk story about a football hoax -imaginary teams, whose scores appeared in the Times & the Herald Tribune for three successive weeks in all the Sunday-morning lists of football scores. A Morris Newburger invented the name Plainfield Teachers College during a dinner. He got up from the table & telephoned the Times. "I wish to report that Plainfield defeated Winona, 27-to-3-" he said. Then he called the Herald Tribune. Next morning both papers carried the score. Tells about a phenomenal half-back, John Chung, a Chinese half-breed, he also invented & whos exploits were relayed to the press by a fictitious agent Jerry Croyden.